Originally posted by Jay330
just found this on the BBC news website

Source: BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3565411.stm

Yep, that pretty much sums it up… operational SAS news from the last few days include the debut of a new route to Shanghai last weekend, and a series of semi-charters from Stockholm to Aleppo, Damascus, Beirut, Hurghada and Monastir to be operated during the summer. SAS left the Middle East some years ago when the route to Tel Aviv was closed; in the 80s and 90s services to Baghdad, Kuwait, Riyadh, Jeddah, Beirut, Damascus, Tehran and Cairo were suspended. Snowflake is already flying to Beirut, this new kind of ‘ethnic’ routes have proven to be a huge success for SAS in the last few months.